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from tucker carlson that he hates that is the headline of the night, that's tonight's last word the 11th hour stephanie ruhle starts right now. tonight, it's a look behind the scenes fox news, during the 2020 election. but texts and emails released, as part of dominion's 1.6 billion dollar lawsuit. hosts continue to oppose push trump's -- with rupert murdoch questioning if they went too far. then, tucker carlson cherry-picking, and flat out misrepresenting the events of january 6th. the condemnation we are hearing from some republican lawmakers, and the brutal kidnapping in mexico, two americans, dead to survivors back on american soil. the warnings to americans traveling to that area, as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. >> good evening once again, i'm

stephanie ruhle, we have still to get into a mountain of new evidence tonight, a brand-new court filing and the 1.6 billion dollar defamation, suit from dominion voting systems, against fox news. drop just a few hours ago, the latest trove of documents, includes text messages, emails, and depositions that reveal even more about what was going on inside the network. as the regularly push donald trump's lies that the 2020 election was stolen. this shows the fox news chairman rupert murdoch himself -- he was asked, quote, have you ever believe that dominion engage in an effort to engage in corruption. there's also, elected is also asked if he committed election fraud by rigging the 2020 presidential election. murdaugh responded, no, i've never seen any evidence.

the filing also included this email from january of 2021. from murdaugh, two fox news ceo suzanne scott, where he says, still getting mud thrown at us, maybe sean and laura went too far. of course referring to primetime anchors laura ingraham and shawn and hannity. with, that let's get smarter the help of our lead off panel tonight, jeff candidacy, the co-anchor pbs, newshour and pbs's chief washington correspondent and an msnbc political contributor. chairman peters tries, political reporter for the new york times, nick reston is here a national political reporter at the washington post, and former federal prosecutor renato, he's also legal affairs analyst for politico. jeremy, i want you to be here because you go inside fox news, every day, you are reporting what sticks out to you the most in this. >> i think what you see first and foremost, it is almost kind of a contempt for president trump. coming from some unlikely

sources, namely tucker carlson 's producers. so few people of fox news, have been as big a cheerleader for president trump, as tucker carlson. so what he's saying privately, things like you thinks what trump is doing by refusing to concede the election is disgusting. when they said i hate him passionately, and these the kinds of things that you knew certain, people in trump's orbit said -- this leaked out in a pretty big way, it's all the more striking we have somebody like tucker carlson is now trying to rewrite history of the 2020 presidential election, and say that it is corrupt and dishonest, which he said last night's show.

, this is new down, but it is all this information make dominions case any stronger? >> yeah, it's really hard for me to see, frankly, how dominion hasn't extracted a massive amount to fox news at all. i think the only explanation, if the dominion thinks they have such a strong hand, that they are not that they're holding all this over fox's head, and they're demanding massive settlement. we have to prove that the other side that's the kind of thing you can never actually prove. and here that's literally what

the fox executives are admitting, people like rupert murdoch, unbelievable. >> this is what does make sense about that argument, because on its face, i totally agree with you, i'm like yeah, oh my, gosh dominion as the best hand, every those folks believe that there are not. and given all the evidence that's out, there wouldn't you think that they be telling their anchors, dial it back, pipe down, when in fact turn on fox news tonight, tucker carlson this double, triple, quadrupling down. >> yeah, i think the dominion is an unusual case, because there you actually have a plaintiff, it's suffering monetarily. in other words, this isn't a public figure, that is essentially, tucker carlson is making up lives about an officer, and how he secured on

january six and put preservation notices out, they're so that they actually had all these emails and communications. i think this is during a pandemic, where rupert murdoch was communicating more, then he was usually. i really think that they have evidence here, my guess is they don't actually have it in writing in other cases. so expect folks to be more careful behind the scenes, now they're being more careful what they actually know i suppose the same privately that they know that this is false, so i think this is what we are doing. >> i don't know anybody knows anything about january, six back to defer, given what talker carlson has been the same the last 48 hours. jeff, what do you think? >> i think that what has been revealed in these documents, really serves as the most visceral intangible proof. i fox news for decades and

wraps itself in the name of, news and that's not at all what it is but if they call the state the way fox, did called arizona for joe biden. not just first, but called it days ahead of any other network. that would be celebrated, but within fox news, there's a sense of crisis. because they realized, that the audience was recoiling from the truth. and that's what this all speaks to, that's why these primetime fox personalities, are pretending, saying one thing about donald trump, disparaging donald trump and supporters, and private. and then going on the error they are concerned about losing, viewers to our upstart right

wing rivals, oan and in and newsmax. we saw that one of the previous document dumps, probably because in addition what drives stocks is not investigative reporting, it's not the reported as truth seekers and truth tellers. 12 just planes, made from a fox news of news viewer at this point it's clear as day that i can i do every night of the week inside 80s even if i love fox even of those are my homeboys, i don't think it might too i best friend, i called him out and i picked. why they're viewers angry? . >> i think it's can be so fastening to see what the fallout is from all of this.

as for, all were so siloed in this country, we are fox corners are not getting the news from other channels. so when they see tonight, this betrayal they see from the text messages from tucker carlson. it the way he's been talked about behind the scenes. i think we really fascinating to see, whether they can continue, if they can continue to be the arbiter, going forward, in the 2024 republican primary, for example. or, whether we're gonna see much more of a splintering and fracturing, in terms of who's actually driving the narrative on the right. after all of this is a marriage. because it's so messy, and so embarrassing, it's gonna be fascinating to see how trump responds to all this. and whether he even acknowledges what's been laid out here today. >> jeremy, let's go back to the point you just made, but when

tucker carlson himself said about trump. you mentioned, it by want to laid out again. but in january of 2020, one who's fed up with trump saying, we are very close to being able to ignore trump most nights, i truly cannot wait, he then said, i hate him passionately. this if this is how tucker carlson felt about donald trump, why and god's name has he been carrying his water, pushing the big lie, for months and months and months? why didn't he just say, trump, loss he failed us, it's got on the dissent to strain. >> two things, relevance and writing. they had, both as long as they stay loyal to trump, and criticizes him gently enough that he doesn't this so enraged the trump base, the trump base may not ever really know what's in these texts, where they may not ever know the talk of carlson had spoke so disparagingly and despair about trump, because fox isn't

actually covering this. >> they're also not punishing any of their anchors, you see rupert murdoch is calling out maria by, aroma not our anchor is made that one down there, that your bottom dollar shoes can be on tv tomorrow morning. >> tucker carlson remain on, tv sean hannity said whoa, too far, and he says other things about chinaberry critical and these text messages, at one point he says, you know it's fine shawn is kind of come around privately, instead that he thinks that trump has really hurt himself and hurt the country, but what's even telling his viewers all these weeks. and that's ultimately what is driving this, is it's about viewership. fox, tucker carlson, and all the anchors there they're only gonna start criticizing trump and backing away from, him if he knows that's where their audience is, right now that's not where they're audiences.

>> isn't their audience where they tell their audience to be. >> it used to have that power ten or 15 years ago, but right now with these documents show so vividly, and in such a drying detail, is just how terrified fox executives were of their audience. >> jeff, let's go back to the point you made a moment ago, about several fox news anchors, being angry, about fox news accurately calling the arizona race. who went to share texas change between lauren, tucker carlson, and sean hannity. the primetime trifecta. if trump writes, my anger at the news channel's house. >> it should be, we devote our lives to build an audience, and i'll let chris wallace and leland vitor, racket, too much. >> two matches cracked, i've discussed at this point. >> can you just inform our audience, jeff, how news organization works.

how news, anchors sitting in front of you can anchor the camera, have absolutely no influence, i'd respectable new news organization, about how an election is being called. we wait for the decision of dust, telles and then he breaks it all down. can you imagine are saying they're saying, oh, disgusting, let's do something else. >> not in 1 million years. proper news organizations, i siloed because that's the way it supposed to work. we have reporters, you as an anchor, we don't have that decision-making responsibilities, when it comes to calling races, and when it comes to articulating the overall editorial vision of the network. and they said are decide, reporting that's great reporting, and then we get into prime time you get opinion in perspectives. what you see from the documents, is that no, really, from rupert

murdoch to the powerful personalities of primetime, and down, is there with the folks who are calling the shots, and there are the folks who are making the ultimate decisions, about news judgment about editorial value and about at the end of the day but they're gonna say on the air about dogs trump and preserving and pushing on the live scene tell you about the 2020 election. >> well our audience is in love tonight, you know i, because all of our guests have agreed to stay with us. when we come, back the one thing that senator schumer and mcconnell on the same page. here's a hint, it has to do with tucker carlson's take on january 6th. and later, for americans kidnapped to mexico, but tonight, only to have returned home alive. >> regulators on one of the world is going on, is this a few to go to that part of mexico. the long, without still getting underway on a very busy tuesday night. night. allergies don't have to be scary.

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because speaker mccarthy knows damn well,, what kind of customer mr. carlson's. mccarthy is not at all surprised, about this outcome. and he probably even feels no remorse, even more shameful. >> it was a mistake, in my view, for fox news to depict this, in

a way that is completely at variance, with what our chief law enforcement official here at the capitol things. >> senate leaders structure mitch mcconnell, criticizing tucker carles for misrepresenting the events of january 6th. will give senator tom tillis of north carolina to get a step further and said this. -- >> i think when you see police officers, assaulted all, that and you happen to be in close proximity to, it if you're just a tourist, he should've lined up at the visitors center and coming in an orderly basis. i don't think it's helpful. >> sure, isn't one of tucker's segments focused on brian sicknick, remember him? the capitol police officer who was there on january 6th, in the midst of it, all and the next day he died. we are not going to show you any of tucker's broadcast last night out of respect for the

sicknick family, and for the truth. but today, brian's family released a statement, and their voices deserve to be heard. here they are right there sitting families that the ongoing attack on her family, and the unscrupulous and downright sleeves the so-called news network of fox news, and in the beginning of trump or any of his sycophant followers. no matter what the damage is done to the families of the falling. -- and we're not a merry, on a still with us. jeremy, help me up. >> he has 44,000 hours a, video and in the last two, nights -- they spend all this time

scrounging for evidence that they could ultimately produce this is somehow really a peaceful protests, they didn't show of course of capitol police officers getting bludgeoned, getting pepper sprayed, they didn't really tell you the full story of how terrified the people were, sitting in the senate chamber, they're literally running for their lives as rioters closed in. and it's because they don't have an answer. the whitewashing of history that is taken place about january 6th, is really one of the more extraordinary things, that i've ever seen in politics. we can convince people here, there you saw the rioters smashing the glass, place where they work, the seat of american democracy, and within weeks, once president trump started saying, this wasn't antifa, this wasn't really that big of

a deal. they change their tune, and sort of the tune of many other voters. it's really remarkable, how quickly and effectively they were able to scrub this history. >> me and they are monday, night there's actually republicans who are mad about it. so move like this that kevin mccarthy made, it's and seconds the law enforcement community. republicans, like a tom tillis, like mitch mcconnell. who will say it does not regret giving tucker carlson the videos. what planet was this a good move for the speaker. when -- i don't know why this is so interesting, why did kevin mccarthy is getting a became part of the negotiations, the

mccarthy was having with those far-right members of his conference, in order to get that speakers gavel. during one of the boat series, tucker carlson went on air, instead, mccarthy there are two things you can do. one really saw the january 6th files, and all the video, not some, of it all of it. but in the two month since he began, speaker that's precisely what he's done. the reason why this is important, so we don't know all the things what are the anti-agree, two out of that house weaker. but still under lock and key. >> jeff, i know you talked to some january 6th investigators today about this video, what did you learn? >> it's really interesting. i spoke today with the person who was the senior investigative counsel for the january six committee, this is somebody who for the better part of the year, investigated not just what transpired on

january 6th, but the people who planned the riot, and those who attended it. and on the specific issue of brian said nick, we heard from the u.s. capitol police chief today, and he said it was one of the most disturbing allegations, officer sicknick's death had nothing to do with his heroic actions on january 6th, that the capitol police force in particular was really just disgusted by the suggestion, that assertion from tucker carlson. what i heard for this investigator, is one of the reasons why the january six committee never showed video officer sicknick, was because they weren't show sure where he was. so the idea that tucker carlson is now saying, with confidence, oh this is him, we should not take that at face value. because the people who are involved in the actual investigating, never made that determination on their own. >> the same, time what is tucker carlson doing, he is still questioning the outcome of the 2020 election. on his, air tonight, last

night. we're not, can any of these continuous false claims on the part of, tucker have any impact on the dominion case. >> well sure, ultimately, this is set to go to trial not that long today, i don't expect a motion for summary judgment to be granted in, full they almost never are, when the plate of those recently, judgment and the very well may be a, trial talk is gonna stand, i'll tell you there's nothing the jurors are gonna like less, than someone who is totally unapologetic and i'm repentant. and so be very difficult for talking to explain, after all this time those texas, fugitives it is still peddling the same falsehoods and same lives. a big committee issue for, him but i don't, care that's their business model they have to keep doing it. >> a minute, ago jeremy was saying, successful event

today's, they loosened pretty behind of republican voters are, st. idlewood i really six anymore. why isn't fox news, giving them that. why would they continue to push conspiracies, when their voters don't want to hear about it anymore? >> you heard that from voters all around the, country republican primary voters who are saying, why are we still talking about these things, let's move forward, those are the people who are open to people like ron desantis, and the others who are running. so it is really kind of curious, when you think about it, like whose interest is this actually serving? to be going, back and trying to litigate, again, january 6th for all these hours, as tucker carlson is doing. the only person who's interested serves, is donald trump. and it's really baffling, because many of the people who

still like trump, we'd really like to see him move on, something else, and talk about it for looking agenda. >> i don't know how his universe voters waited go through this exercise, besides the fact that it's a really upsetting white wash for those who have to watch it. >> joining into trump, the guy who tucker carlson said he hates passionately, and amazing smart panel, here national and get. it jeremy peters, josh, bennett and the question. when we come, back a political pepper alley down in florida rhonda santos lays out what he wants in a state of the state, speech and with the gop group in the legislature, he's likely gonna get it. why it could be a clue of what kind of campaign he plans to run, in 2024, when the 11th hour continues. hour continues allergies don't have to be scary.

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hold the line, we will back down, and i can promise you this, you ain't seen nothing yet. >> there is a lot on the agenda, in iran desantis's florida. the republican-controlled state legislature, it's considering several of his cultural war priorities. including banning gender studies majors republican

versatile, and ignorant requirements return again, increasing funding to send migrants to other states, that whole lot more. so as, discussed with juanita tolliver. msnbc political analyst, and the host of the what a day podcast. and former kenneth koenig get what we can congressman, chris for chase. congressman, even if he's not officially announcing his running, is not end of a presidential candidate? >> it's the objective of someone wants to win a primary, that's not the agenda who are of someone who ultimately needs to win the support of unaffiliated voters. >> juanita, he's mentioning banning gender studies majors, that's can impact the tiny amount of people that lives in florida. no you didn't mention? florida's proposed six-week abortion ban, they didn't mention that at all. why do you think that is? and then there's a lot more people that would care about that.

>> in the way he doesn't want them to, stephanie, desantis is a complete idiot, and the last thing he wants is a clip of him calling for a six-week abortion ban, and more than two thirds of the country that supports access to abortion. so i think that is a move, strategically by him, even though his state legislature set him up for a layup there, by announcing the bill moments before he took the stage, deliver his state of the state address so i dress them expected to start about issues like that, you know the damage cruelties already done targeting women in -- florida already has a 15-week abortion ban, it's been reviewed in the courts right, now but is clearly something that he's gonna keep pushing at home and across the country. >> chris, educate us, you've been a lawmaker. >> stephanie, he has to know, that abortion was one of the reasons why democrats did so

well, most americans support that, and so it's a hot issue, could get nomination as a republican, but it's not clear when you won, election it's gonna lose even election. the other point i want to, make its he had sometimes -- the person you're running against, wasn't a good candidate. and he ran against someone, who didn't have a strong race. >> help us understand, this as a former lawmaker. i get the culture war issues fire voters, but when somebody running for potentially president, be focused on kitchen table issues? aren't pocketbook issues, isn't that politics 101? i >> it's a no-brainer, it's so important for someone to speak to a higher nature, and take on the huge challenges i on this

basis, and not the side issues, these cultural issues that have nothing to do with the prosperity, in the future success of our country. >> well, then why did so many people, i thought some republicans who are sort of, like we superficial republicans all the time. when i bring up things like january 6th, they say january six was terrible, it's in the past. >> have you heard the princeton took woodrow wilson's name off the school? i don't even understand the false equivalency. culture war issues are over here, attacks on our democracy, should be up here. >> well, i have sleepless nights, it's the republican party, that's been captured by someone who spoke to our think about donald trump is saying this week it's all angry stuff

in built with lots of lives, and one thing the democrats had to be careful of, is they have a very bad record an issue of immigration, and now maybe a lot of your audience for the degree. but the bottom line, is most americans want our borders to be protected. and the democrats are not on the right side of that. they're not in the right side of having sanctuary susie cities, which shows that they don't really want to address the issue. the democrats other problems too. >> different problems. juanita, is this a vulnerability for president biden? that even when you talked, to democratic lawmakers importer states, is this a vulnerability for the administration. >> it's been a long-standing vulnerability for democrats, writ large, the republicans

have liked to hit democrats over the head with, election after election cycle. but i think what's taken over the republican party, and let's be real, this upcoming election, that's gonna be about the contrast between extremist policies coming out of the gop, when ron desantis said we won't see nothing, yet i don't doubt him, we know he is putting forward anti women, anti lgbtq, anti black, anti everything, agenda that targets every demographic group, especially minority groups, so i think that's something that really lays out the contrast for democrats, to play it nicely, when we talk about stephanie, mentioned earlier importance of kitchen table issues now in a people in this country are still struggling to make ends meet keep a roof of the head keep food on the table -- and actually helping people, and reminding voters that they did that almost exclusively alone as republicans and

congress rejected every bit of it. >> chris, the stimulus it against fox. certainly the republican donor class, is. what are they saying about it. >> well, what they're saying is, i'm almost speechless in trying to respond to this because there's no way, that they support what you're seeing on fox news there's just no way that they support it. and trump is not gonna get the kind of financial help that he's had in the past. probably had in the primary, is we had five or six people running, you can win a primary one third of the vote, and get all the delegates. and so then people are saying, well, and the end is trump gonna be the winner? and then when do we support him because of that? >> well, we'll soon find, out

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heard about the brutal kidnapping of for americans in mexico. u.s. officials confirmed today that two of the for americans who were shot, and taken by government. we're back on u.s. soil. but two others are dead. and their families are desperate for answers. nbc's dave gutierrez has more. >> tonight, the two americans that survived the brazen kidnapping on our back on u.s. soil after a harrowing full days. let's caveat is among the survivors. we spoke with her directly, and she tells nbc news. the violence interaction caught on camera. the victims dragged until the pick up truck. they said that they opened fire on the group shortly after they cross the border in mexico. today, authorities confirmed that two of the americans had been killed. >> we extend our deepest condolences to the family. and those who are deceased. she was with her cousin, and --

from the homes in south carolina, to mexico. a law enforcement official familiar with the issues as it was a cosmetic procedure. a victim also supplies, he was shot in the leg. >> i didn't know anything until sunday morning. . when the fbi came. >> she says that she spoke with her husband for a few minutes today before he went into surgery. >> i am very happy that he is alive, but i am also heartbroken for the other families who cannot say the same. >> she says the forward childhood friends, taking the trip together to share driving responsibilities. so called medical tourism is on the rise. pre-pandemic an estimated 1.2 million americans travel to mexico each year for elected medical treatment. mostly cosmetic procedures and complex dentistry. but it was in the mexican state of tamaulipas which the state

says is level for, do not travel. -- of the notorious golf contest. today, the governor said that one person who was guarding the kidnapping victims was arrested. they were found in the -- and over the past three days investigator said it moves are three places, including a medical pot plans to create confusion. >> the possible death of americans, we are falling as hard as possible. we are doing as much as possible. >> with me now, is retired, four star general barry mccaffrey, he's usually here talking about the war in ukraine, but tonight he is tapping into his time as the former director of office of natural drug control policy under president clinton. general, two people are dead. two people were shot at. what in the world happened here? >> a minor data points in a violent, ongoing struggle for the domination of mexico. territory. maybe 20 to 30% of mexico

controls the cartel. there may be as many as 200 armed groups, who may not be involved in the drug trade but our extorting for murdering mexican citizens. it's a real nightmare. those cartels are capable of putting together the battalion sized units of 7800 narco's with heavy machine guns. armored vehicles, and successfully confronting they mexico army. the places are in control, the president has a goofy policy. hubs, not bullets. and what is essentially happening, stephanie, is that the cartels are the principal, criminal enterprise inside of the united states. so it is a very dire situation. >> how dangerous as mexico right now? are there specific parts of the country that people should avoid? i mean, spring breakers here. >> well, i get asked that all

the of the time. half of the mexican states are under a travel advisory from the u.s. state department. all of the border states our avoid travel. five of the mexican states held the same level for danger classification that the state department uses for afghanistan, syria, and iraq. there is no justice inside of mexico. there law enforcement tend to be corrupt, and incredibly incompetent in dominating cartels. the mexican rains will fight for the state, the army, also that is the only tools left to really provide security inside of mexico. >> so, is there anything that we can do to make people safer or, it's another country, not our jurisdiction? >> while, we have to pay attention to it. it is an astonishing situation,

the people to people contact of mexico are absolutely superb. there is no question that mexico is a family oriented humble, hardworking nation and incredible economic performance. and you know, the number one trading partner by some accounts. eventually, and canada, it will lead to vital nations on the face of the earth. so we have to do more, and right now all we have is fairly low level contact between u.s. law enforcement prosecution and mexican authorities who we think that we can trust. but, the state of affairs in mexico is dire! you're probably going to be safe if you are an 18 year old boy or girl headed to cabo first bring break. probably. but there are no guarantees. americans get murdered down there, and get abducted and extorted every day of the week so it is a very tough situation. >> it is a very tough situation,

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[applause] >> how they are ready for some sweet dreams tonight boys and girls. because we present to you the unlikely federal or. michael cleveland was not dealt and easy hand in life. he was born blind, and mostly death. but he was also born with a love, a passion for music. and despite all of the, oddity is that love to become one of the most accomplished federal players of his generation. >> to hear michael cleveland played the fiddle. is to experience bluegrass packed with passion and theory. of a lifelong love affair. >> it feels like bluegrass in your blood. >> it is all i want to do, and it is something that i was born into. my grandparents were big fans of bluegrass music. >> michael was born blind, and doesn't have hearing in 80% of his left ear, and a quarter of his right. despite his challenges, his

grandparents took him to shows all over the town of henry bill indiana. starting at six months old, and by three months old he was held to a track player. >> i would take one of the speaker and lay it flat on the ground, and lay my right ear on the speaker. and go to sleep listening to bluegrass. >> behind the brilliance of his prodigy, a fearlessness to learn. >> i am in a good jim session that i act can get into. >> and now, he plays 400,000 crowds from phoenix to fort myers. >> oh man, it is purely -- >> boosted by family who only wanted to share his dreams. >> do you think that your grand parents saw this today? >> i don't think they would be surprised. >> they would be darn proud. >> i hope so! thank y'all! >> sam brock, nbc news, fort myers, florida. >> and all american inspiration.

michael cleveland, and his famous fiddle are taking us off the air tonight. and before i let you go. i want to share, we have a very special guest tomorrow. actress michelle yeoh, jones me one-on-one to talk about why law school for her would mean everything, everywhere, all at one. sears a little sneak peek! >> people say oh, awards no matter. but the oscars are coming? and yes, it matters! >> it matters a lot. it's not just mattering to me. it is shining the light on a part of the world. of people that look like me. who have never been included. >> again, you can catch my one on one with michelle yeoh, right here on 11th hour. and i can tell you right here, it will be a special show! and with that, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for